Today is Letterer Appreciation Day, chosen because it’s the birthday of Gaspar Saladino, one of the greatest comics letterers of all time, and my favorite letterer. I hope you will take a moment to send a note of appreciation to at least one letterer today. I’ve written a great deal about Gaspar on my blog, […]

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04.09.2024

Rereading: A MYSTERY FOR MR. BASS by Eleanor Cameron - Todd's Blog

The fourth book in the Mushroom Planet series is quite complicated, but also full of action and drama, and interesting new developments. Scientist and mushroom person Prewytt Brumblydge is having one bad luck event after another, and then he gets very ill. Meanwhile, Mr. Bass is hurrying to refurbish the rocket ship for David and […]

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06.09.2024

Rereading: OVER THE SEA'S EDGE by Jane Louise Curry - Todd's Blog

The fourth book in Curry’s Abaloc series was the most interesting one to reread for me so far. Dave Reese, a boy on vacation in Ohio next to the river, finds a silver amulet, and it causes him to change places with a boy like himself named Dewi in medieval Wales. Dewi is a lowly […]

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11.09.2024

Rereading: THE HORSE IN THE CAMEL SUIT by William Pène du Bois - Todd's Blog

This is what’s now called a chapter book, 80 pages of story with dozens of full-color illustrations by the author. I don’t have many in my library, but any book by du Bois is worth reading. It’s actually a sequel to The Alligator Case, a book I haven’t read. The narrator is an unnamed boy […]

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